Microservices
Kubernetes and a Service Mesh
How a service mesh combats Kubernetes’ limitations Kubernetes is not set up to provide a high degree of management for inter-container data processing. A…
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MicroservicesService Mesh – Benefits and Challenges
Microservices and distributed applications require instantaneous network communications and complex orchestrations to ensure high performance and fast scalabil…
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AWS TechnologyKubernetes – resiliency, backup, recovery, administration overview
The basics: Setup a VPC in AWS with separate networking for both a Control and Data Plane (and associated resources, Ec2 builds automated using Terraform or CF…
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Enterprise ArchitectureAWS EKS add-ons, plug-ins and Roadmap
AWS has announced its AWS Kubernetes roadmap which will include an EKS GitOps add-on, along with tighter security and observability integrations with other AWS…
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Cloud Design GoalsDocker – summary of what, when, why
What are Docker containers? Docker containers are lightweight application hosting environments. Like VMs, they are designed to be easily portable between diffe…
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MicroservicesKong API Gateway for Architects – a summary
Kong Kong API Gateway sits in front of the backend API services. The gateway forwards client requests to those services. Kong is the first point that the clien…
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ObservabilityObservability Summarised
Observability is Yet Another Buzzword or YAB. But what is it? In reality it is monitoring your systems and then acting on them to either fix or prevent issues.…
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ObservabilitySplunk, Cloud Watch and Metric Value Streams
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides patterns for high-resolution visibility into AWS infrastructure services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), …
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Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
It is best to use a managed Kubernetes service. EKS in AWS or similar would be preferable for most companies, given the inherent cost and complexity in trying …
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MicroservicesKubernetes and Storage
Kubernetes is a necessary infrastructure to manage decomposed applications focused on providing discrete functionality, in a lightweight container. This was ca…
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Kubernetes and the Micro-services ‘way of thinking’
Kubernetes (K8s) use-cases are centred on scaling. Architectures which are Containerised, with hundreds, or even thousands of Containers require immutable scal…
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Application TransformationMicroservices and Refactoring Code
Source link here. Code refactoring enhances microservices One of the more important coding disciplines in object-oriented programming and SOA is code refactori…
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